AC GT Coupe
At 4am on June 11, 1964, driver Jack Sears took the AC A98 coupe onto the M1 motorway and hit 185 mph preparing for Le Mans, making it the highest speed ever recorded on a British motorway. The story made front pages and has been blamed for Britain's 70 mph speed limit ever since, though Sears always maintained the connection was a myth. The GT Coupe borrows the A98's roofline and Kamm tail, and is the first production AC coupe in over six decades of building Cobras. The carbon fiber body sits over an extruded aluminum monocoque chassis with a double-bubble roof. Ford's 5.0-liter Coyote V8 comes in two tunes: 450 hp naturally aspirated or 720 hp supercharged, with a 799 hp Clubsport edition limited to 99 examples. The supercharged car hits 60 in 3.2 seconds. Both take a six-speed manual or a 10-speed automatic. Production is capped at 250 cars per year. Deliveries start in 2028.
